Across 1. God of Fertility 3. A gate 5. A council Chamber (2 wds.) 8. Hieroglyphic sign meaning beautiful and good 9. Common housing such as an apartment house 11. Ruler of the mid-1st dynasty; son of Merneith 15. Painting technique used for the Fayum mummy-portraits of Roman Egypt 18. A symbol worn as a talisman against evil or injury 19. An Arabic word for a holy man or saint from any religion 20. Devourer of the Dead 21. The Sun God 23. Early Egyptian museum director 25. Great Greek city 26. The highest official of an Egyptian Nome 27. A curved triangular support that raises a dome above a square base that puts the weight on the corners of the base, braced with several smaller domes and half domes 29. God of the Earth 31. One of five elements which the Egyptians considered necessary to make up a complete personality 32. Deity of Darkness, Obscurity and Night 33. The outer vestibule of a church 34. The Sun God
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Down 1. King of the 4th dynasty; builder of the 3rd pyramid at Giza 2. God of the primeval lotus blossom 3. Tower 4. Ancient Cow Goddess 5. An Islamic house or mansion 6. Kindly God of the Desert 7. A precursor of Osiris 10. From pagan religion, the spirit that inhabits the body during one's life 12. A row of columns set at regular intervals and often supporting a roof 13. Great pyramid builder 14. A sculptural relief that projects slightly from the background (2 wds.) 16. Hathor animal 17. Rapids along a river, specifically the Nile 22. A main street that parallels the Nile or other water fronts 23. Egyptian priest and historian; author of Aegyptiaca 24. Sign in the script which implies meaning, not sound 28. Sufi litany or prayer service 30. Ancient religious city in north, counter to nekhen 31. Tutankhamun's successor 32. A spirit that inhabits the body during life and may leave it in death, but requires the continued existence of the body for its survival
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